The ALA Library Career Recruitment Clearinghouse is intended to be an interactive, dynamic resource for people interested in library career recruitment. The wiki format facilitates resource sharing, along with the exchange of ideas, successful strategies and related information.

The ALA Library Career Recruitment Clearinghouse is intended to be an interactive, dynamic resource for people interested in library career recruitment. The wiki format facilitates resource sharing, along with the exchange of ideas, successful strategies and related information.

Revision as of 12:28, 23 October 2007

The ALA Library Career Recruitment Clearinghouse is intended to be an interactive, dynamic resource for people interested in library career recruitment. The wiki format facilitates resource sharing, along with the exchange of ideas, successful strategies and related information.

The Clearinghouse was developed to describe examples of past recruitment initiatives. It may become a tool to discuss the issue of responsible recruiting, and to explore ways to hire the new librarians entering the job market between now and the date of the predicted librarian shortage, currently set at 2019.

The Clearinghouse was created by and continues to be monitored by members of the ALA Recruitment Assembly. Or is it?